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A few tips for home painting, mostly learned the hard way:
If you haven't painted much before, practice first. Paint your lawnmower or your wheelbarrow.
Tip and roll is entirely a useable technique for open flat surfaces, but there are several precautions:
Use a foam roller as mentioned and be careful with the amount of paint loaded on the roller and applied pressure, you do not want bubbles in the paint.
While you can tip with a foam brush, you will get far better results with a high quality badger hair brush.
Practice on a piece of scrap on paint day to get the paint/reducer ratio right.
You need to learn to paint fast enough so the tipped paint has a chance to flow and self level before it dries enough to no longer flow.
Always always keep the wet edge going.
Tip and Roll isn't going to work on small radius or obstructed surfaces, those will have to be brushed.
Try to avoid painting in buggy areas or buggy times of day. If a bug gets stuck in your paint, do not try to pick it off. Let the paint dry and only the bug legs will be in the paint, and that buffs out easy.
Wait long enough for the paint to harden before sanding and buffing, but not so long to where the paint is so hard it sands with difficulty. Especially true for hardened paints.
Choose a windless day.
Prep Prep, Prep.
Chemical respirators are cheaper than lungs.
For those that choose the cheapest paint and figure they'll repaint every few years, scratches and paint imperfections don't matter since it's never a final coat!